Today, a kid got his hand stuck inside my store's giant gumball machine. He started crying, and his negligent trainwreck of a mom bitched me out for being "unobservant." I'd been mopping up the mess she'd made after she'd spilled an open can of beer all over the floor. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at my job working retail, I had just finished cleaning and straightening a whole aisle. This kid watched me do the whole thing. When I was done, he stuck his arm out, and ran it down the whole shelf, knocking everything off it. His mother just grabbed his hand and walked away. FML
Today, I slipped on a crayon a little girl threw on the floor, causing me to drop the tray of water I was carrying, making me spill it all over her. After getting cussed out by her mom, I was fired for making a customer unhappy. FML
Today, a little girl wandered into the glass-cleaning area of the pub I work at. It's a dangerous place for a little kid, so I took her hand and asked where her mum was. The kid starts screaming and the mother appears in the doorway shouting "GET AWAY FROM MY BABY!" FML
Today, as I was bagging groceries, I looked down to see a 6-year-old urinating on my shoes and the floor next to me. I told his mother that he should take her kid to the restroom, only to be told to "mind my own goddamn business." I was later fired for arguing with the customer. FML
Today, a child was choking in the store I work at. He was alone in the aisle, so I started the Heimlich without his parents' permission. After dislodging what was caught, his mother turned the corner and went screaming to my manager for touching her kid. I got a write up. FML
Today, I spent an hour setting up a delicate display stand at work. Not five minutes later, a woman barged in with her little kid, who immediately went up to the display and tipped the whole thing over. When I called attention to the mother, she just scoffed, "Isn't this your job?" and left. FML
Today, I stopped two little boys from spitting over a railing at the piano player two floors below in the department store I work at. Their mom complained to my boss about me. FML
Today, while I was working at a supermarket, a kid started to cry in line because he couldn't get candy. Since we have free lollipops behind the desk, I gave him one. His mom complained to my manager and said I was grooming her child. FML
Today, I was at the mall, I saw a girl crying that her ice cream had fallen on the floor. Feeling generous, I bought her a new one. She threw it on the ground, laughed, and came over to her mom and told that I was bothering her, so the mom called security. FML
Today, I tripped over a kid at work. She was sitting on the floor with her legs sticking out into the walkway. Her mom caused a scene, accusing me of doing it on purpose. FML
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TheVelocirabbit 10
"You have now been banished from the kingdom of this store. Be gone, troll!"
Christina6 11
The mom was unobservant her self for not noticing you were cleaning up her mess.
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Comments (136)
oneleggedbeauty 0
How the....?
melrose90210 10
Someone needs to have a lil chat with social services...
EnzaiFreak 1
What a shit-dick excuse for a mother....
punknose 3
I have this crazy feeling that this took place in Carbondale PA. The land of white trash moms bring beer into stores.
nevershoutkendal_fml 11
It happened in Norway.
tennislove11 2
oooo thats not good
Migole 36
And 15 years later we'll have another criminal with mother issues running around... Geez, some people shouldn't be allowed to breed really :/ I hope your policies allow you to politely inform her that her behaviour is not accurate, that she is responsible for her own friggin child and that you apparently had something different to do, which by the way was her fault as well. I work part-time at a local store and can totally feel your pain op...Some customers are right-out terrible. Although I've never encountered someone as horrible as this.
downtime 13
Knowing the way the business world works these days, she will probably get a warning and have to apologise to the customer in writing. Then she will be fired the day some idiot trips on his own shoelaces and sues the store. I can't for the life of me understand why people who work in customer service are so disgruntled. I mean they are only treated like shit all the time by everyone, what's so bad about that?
goose12321 11
People like this piss me off. Should've pretended you were going to have to amputate the kid's hand. Teach both those dumbasses a lesson.
TheQueenLala 6
And u didn't call child services y?
fatalwish 6
a call to social services incoming in 3 2 1 .... no seriously though you are not the parent of that child it is not your responsability for that child unfit mother is unfit
izzygarcia 0
Child protective services? I think yes!(: